How To Use Leniency In A Sentence
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Some Church figures have called for forgiveness and have appealed to the Patriarch to urge leniency.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said there would be a period of leniency but insisted that this would be short-lived.
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Leniency also should be extended to those insurgents who give up the armed struggle.
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Show them any leniency and they will leave their cars there while they go for a coffee and a trip to the shops.
The Sun
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South Africa too, will seek more leniency in international trade of elephant products.
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The victim's widow protested at the leniency of the sentence.
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Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings.
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She begged for leniency for her son.
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The defending lawyer asked for leniency on the grounds of her client's youth.
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Honest taxpayers may resent the leniency being offered to dodgers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right to muteness and "leniency to those who confess their crimes" will not be mutually exclusive.
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Justice Oluwayemi held that the magistrate misdirected himself and might have been confused by the illocution (plea for leniency) by the lawyer to the convict the ex-beauty queen who was a working mother.
Vanguard News
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Both accused Johnson of fostering a leniency that abetted crime.
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They are so long-suffering that we are going to lose patience with them; we are going to accuse them of cowardice; the Irish people believe they are cowards; their very leniency is put down to cowardice.
The Irish Problem
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Contributing to their leniency was the fact that Mr. Sabo had gone out of his way to avoid any risk of harm to any human, and surrendered peacefully to the first officers on scene.
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Mr. McGuire, now in his 23rd year at '21,' seems to lament the new leniency, and the inelegance of it all.
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The judge rejected pleas for leniency and sentenced him to six months in prison.
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There have been a number of disturbing instances recently of such leniency but at the moment they are not offences that can be referred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some actions by the authorities ran counter to the president's call for leniency.
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The variety of leniency of the different officials, and of the same officials on different days, gave a certain savour of adventure to the dreariness of prison life.
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Even the victim's family made a plea for leniency on behalf of the accused.
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There is no way to justify that degree of leniency.
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It contains ideological elasticity leniencyand displays ancient Greeks naivety and and healthy spiritual nature.
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He's publicly turned down a deal for leniency in exchange for information on his surveillance activities.
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In previous years, universities have shown leniency to those who narrowly missed out on grades, but this is unlikely to happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hey Eugene, I think given our current troll’s moniker, a little leniency is allowed.
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As well as the tears, I was perplexed by the leniency of the sentence.
The Sun
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Right to muteness and "leniency to those who confess their crimes" will not be mutually exclusive.
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‘The criteria for imposing penalties on minors is usually based on the principle of leniency,’ Chen said.
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Sometimes this sympathy could involve quite extraordinary leniency.
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He advocated leniency towards those found guilty of misdemeanours; they were to make restitution, but only the most serious cases were to be dealt with by law, leaving the rest to village opinion.
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Leniency in judging definitions is necessary because the child's power of expression lags farther behind his understanding than is true of adults, and also because for the young subject the word has a relatively less unitary existence.
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I hope baseball sees fit to extend some leniency to a flawed human being who made a serious mistake.
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There were phone calls and letters and telegrams coming into the prison offering me jobs and asking for leniency for me.
The Other Side of Me
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But their barristers pleaded for some leniency.
The Sun
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Merely to characterize as ungenerous this aspersion upon the courage of such men as then served under Hooker, savors of error on the side of leniency.
The Campaign of Chancellorsville
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There is the famous joke about the man who kills his parents and then looks for leniency at his murder trial because he is an orphan.
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There was no gratitude for any so-called leniency of the North, no repentance for the war, no desire for humiliation, for sackcloth and ashes, and no confession of wrong.
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If leniency is to be applied to sit the delegates, whoever violated these rules by leaving their names on ballot ... the ratio should be for violators 1/3 to 2/3 votes for non violators.
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But at least they understood one cardinal fact of the modern world, as our educated liberals do not: that leniency for the criminal is punishment of the innocent.
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Therefore in reviewing the opinions and practices of ruder ages and races we shall do well to look with leniency upon their errors as inevitable slips made in the search for truth, and to give them the benefit of that indulgence which we ourselves may one day stand in need of: cum excusatione itaque veteres audiendi sunt.
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The victim's widow protested at the leniency of the sentence.
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Why was he shown leniency?
The Sun
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There have been a number of disturbing instances recently of such leniency but at the moment they are not offences that can be referred.
Times, Sunday Times
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His protest, though exuberated, against leniency in dealing with atrocities, emphatically requisite in an age apt to ignore the rigour of justice, has been so far salutary, and may be more so.]
Thomas Carlyle
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He tries to use her death and his ex-wife’s disappearance to make a bid for custody of his kids … this all being a ploy to get leniency from the feds for his crooked lobbying and keep him out of prison.
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Leniency to those who confess, severity to those who resist.
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Still, his leniency is a far cry from the bravado he displayed in the months leading up to his final act as pay czar.
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The enforcement of price-fixing intensified as a result of granting leniency to companies that blew the whistle on their competitors.
Times, Sunday Times
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To call the worst of his conduct grotesquely offensive amounts to leniency.
Times, Sunday Times
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My dream is that the school would allow the kids a little leniency in completing their homework since I kept them home a full week to keep them from infecting other people.
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Honest taxpayers may resent the leniency being offered to dodgers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He reluctantly pleaded guilty on the understanding that the court martial would show him considerable leniency.
The Sun
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Appealing against what they called the leniency of the punishment, prosecutors are to now seek that Zana be re-tried on the grounds that she should have been given prison sentences of five years for each of the nine speeches she had made.
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But occasionally a situation arises where leniency is required, depending on the context of the case, and a judge may impose a shorter or lighter sentence.
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So the woman forced herself to be patient, showing a little leniency, at least for now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Judges are advised to show greater leniency towards first - time offenders.
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On the contrary, its frothy leniency now looks passé.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, the Home Secretary is regularly criticised for leniency on such issues from this lobby at the Conservative Party conferences.
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‘All corruptionists must be thoroughly investigated and dealt with without leniency,’ he said.
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Although these factors are never an excuse for criminal activity, a judge can take them into consideration in exhibiting some leniency, especially if it is a first time offence or the offender has demonstrated rehabilitation.
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To work this sportive vein still further, Mr Brass, by his counsel, moved in arrest of judgment that he had been led to criminate himself, by assurances of safety and promises of pardon, and claimed the leniency which the law extends to such confiding natures as are thus deluded.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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To call the worst of his conduct grotesquely offensive amounts to leniency.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blindside was a big issue in the first half, and I wasn't pleased with the amount of leniency they were given to come onto our side of the ruck," he frowned.
Planet Rugby | Rugby Union News
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When the accused was fined $10,000 and sentenced to ten years in prison, it was widely felt that too much leniency had been shown.
Times, Sunday Times
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The application of parental company liability has significant effects on leniency applications, which should be carefully considered by corporate groups.
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I don't see any leniency granted for him.
The Sun
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Since, then, clemency "is leniency of a superior in inflicting punishment on an inferior," as Seneca states (De Clementia ii, 3), and vengeance is taken by means of punishment, it would seem that clemency and meekness are the same.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Judges are advised to show greater leniency towards first - time offenders.
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ADDG, with the leniency of someone who has been unjust in the first place, considered that Haggard's nerves might have been overtaxed.
HUMAN VOICES
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Even the victim's family made a plea for leniency on behalf of the accused.
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Therefore in reviewing the opinions and practices of ruder ages and races we shall do well to look with leniency upon their errors as inevitable slips made in the search for truth, and to give them the benefit of that indulgence which we ourselves may one day stand in need of: _cum excusatione itaque veteres audiendi sunt.
The Golden Bough
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So I think the rules of engagement give the military the leniency they need to accomplish their mission.
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We shall continue to urge for leniency to be shown to these prisoners.
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But law-abiding taxpayers would be right to resent the apparent leniency being shown to tax dodgers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her brother, aunt and uncle all spoke in support of her in court and called on the judge for leniency.
The Sun
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They also stand to benefit should European regulators show leniency when deciding how much cash financial companies need to set aside against future shocks to the system.
Times, Sunday Times
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The newly promoted person may also attempt to minimize the status difference through self-deprecation and a surfeit of leniency toward the new supervisees.
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The son pleads guilty, tearfully begging for leniency based on his claim that his father molested him.
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The leniency has been the reason why this government is emboldened.
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The defending lawyer asked for leniency on the grounds of her client's youth.
